material world
 : What's the difference?
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 & year 8
Resources: 5 wine beakers; jug of water; spoon; spatulas; clock; orange drink powder; vinegar; salt; cooking oil; rice; laminated chart.

Questions / instructions:
In this activity you will be sorting some things you would find in a kitchen. You will be sorting them by how they are the same or different.
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y4
y8

1. You have some things from a kitchen in front of you.
    Tick the boxes in the chart to show if they are solids or liquids.

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Substance

Solid
Liquid
Oil . .
Rice . .
Orange Drink Mix . .
Salt    
Vinegar . .
  . .

2. Sort the kitchen things into groups of solids and liquids.
     Write the groups of things here.

All correct

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75
Solids:

    
Liquids:
Now you can test for something else that could be different about these kitchen substances.
Add a little water to each cup. Stir each cup with a clean spatula. Wait for 1 minute. If the substance mixes into the water and doesn't separate out again, it has made a solution.

3. Tick the boxes on the chart to show if the kitchen substances can be made into solutions

All correct

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Substance
Makes a Solution
Does not make a solution
    
Oil . .
Rice . .
Orange . .
Drink Mix . .
Salt . .
Vinegar . .

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